On Tue, 24 May 2005, Munir Nassar wrote:
> not quite exactly what you want, but if you use passphraseless keys it
> should do what you want. that is, ssh without asking for a password.
Did you read the first paragraph of his email?
> I am writing a script which will take a password as an arg and need to
> use that password when for sshing around. For various reasons I cannot
> use key based authentication.
Not that I disagree with you; the "password-in-a-script" concept makes me
uneasy (not that I know of a way to implement it). I'd sooner put my
efforts into remedying whatever prevents key-based auth from being an
option.
Jima